The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-01-06
MINNESOTA NEWS.

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OF Chatiield, cashier. 1t il understood that
j. c. Baston backs tho enterprise.
The Minneapolis Lumbermens exchange
agrees to support Charles Il. Sinclair ior
the surveyor generalship.
The great event in the religious world oi
| minneapolis on the 10th, was the dedica
ton Of tho new First Baptist church. 1T
the corner Of Tenth street and Harmon
place. Vast throngs OF people OF all iaiths
locked into the edifice at all thu ee hours oi
service, and enjoyed the felicity of Witness
ing and taking part in public worship in
the most gorgeous auditorium in the whole
Northwestern country.
James J. Bushard, former resident oi
Minneapolis, died at Los Angeles, Cal, on
| the Sth inst, aged seventy-two years.
The Granite Falls Journal says ne~
granite quarry is to be opened there, and
| specimens will be sent to ST. Paul to ascer-
tain how good a quality of rock they have
there.
Dr. Newell made the trip from Tracy to
st. Paul with horse and buggy, and it
took him five days.
1t is understood that the executive COM
mittee has practically agreed upon St.
Paul rs the place Of holding the next ma
tional convention of railroad commission.
ers in June, 1887.
Prof. George Wing, at Jacksonville, ILL.,,
died OF pneumonia. Prof. Wing was teach.
er at the institute for the deaf in Faribault
Tor thirteen ye ars, and was very well known
throughout the state.
Articles OF incorporation OF the st. Paul,
st. Croix q Lake Superior Railway COM
pany have been filed with the secretary OF
state. The company contemplates line
in Ramsey, Washington and Chisago coun.
ties, and more particularly from some con-
venient point in St. Paul on the most feas-
ible route to such points as may be deemed
advisable. The capital stock is placed at
$1,O0O,OOO.
Rev. G. C. Tanner OF Owatonna will re-
move to Kansas, where he has secured q
position as teacher. This will leave the Of
flee OF county superintendent vacant.
There are about one hundred and sixty
two men in the Minneapolis police depart
ment. OF this number 122 are active
patrolmen. This gives one patrolman to
every 1900 people.
1t is stated on good authority that
Chicago capitalists will open bank in
Duluth with half million capital.
Otis Gress, university student from
Winona, was seriously injured at Min.
neapolis while attempting to board a
Manitoba freight train.
Commencing Jan. l, 1887, full railroad
| postoffice cur service will be placed on the
| Northern Pacific railroad between st. Paul
and Mandan, Dak., to replace apartments
car service between the same points.
The much. .talked-of 144.hour night and
day six-day ay-go-as-you-please bicycle race
was started under very favorable circum-
stances at the Washington rink, Minneap-
| oils, at three minutes alter midnight oil the
goth.
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| haystacks in sight from the road, between
Montevideo and Kerkhaven, at !, 500 and
the tons at 49, 900. valued at $4,000
During the past season the oil receipts at
Duluth by lake we're 3, 141 900 gallons,
equal to nearly 63,O barrels. Among
other receipts there were Ia, 600 barrels OF
sugar, nearly all of which went to jobbing
houses at st. Paul.
Thomas Hagerty, working in a lumber
| camp near Cloquet was struck on the head
by a limb OF tree. He died.
It is proposed to erect a soldiers monu.
ment in Red Wing to be made OF granite,
| twenty feet in height, with room for tab
let's large enough to contain the names Of
every soldier from that county, the whole
to be surmounted by a life-size statue OF a
soldier in full uniform. The estimated cost
is from So, 900 to $4,000.
A sad story of ruin and death terminated
at Winona recently in the discovery OF a
young woman lying dead in her bed from
an overdose of oil of tansy. Her name
was Tina Webber, twenty-four years old,
employed as a domestic in the household
OF John Kendall, one of the oldest mer.
chants of Winona. A bottle Of oil of tansy.
deadly poison, from which teaspoonful
had been taken, stood beside the bed, and
showed too plainly the manner OF her death.
The secretary of the interior has affirmed
the decision of Sparks, canceling Theodore
section 4, township ia, range 46, Red
wood Falls land district. Jacob T. Roune.
berg gets the land.
The Austin, Geneva, Mankato &. St.
Cloud Railway company has filed articles
| of incorporation with the secretary oi
state. The object OF the company is to
construct and operate railroad from
some convenient point on the south line OF
the State OF Minnesota in a northwesterly
direction, by the way OF Austin, Geneva,
the village OF Richmond and Mankato, to
St. Cloud, with such branches as may be
deemed necessary. Austin is named a. the
principal place for conducting the business
OF the corporation. The capital stock is
$780, 900, divided into 5000 shares.
The first annual convention OF the Sec
ond District Sabbath School Association
of Minnesota will be held at Waseca,
Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. Is and 10,
1887. This district comprises Blue Earth,
Faribault, Freeborn. Steele, Waseca, Rice,
LIE Sueur and Nicollet counties.
The Touring mill OF Lienau & Roescheise
at Watertown, took fire and was burnt
to the ground. The fire at the time it was
it was beyond control, and all that could
be done was TO prevent the fire from
spreading to other buildings. The total
loss is estimated at $8, 900.
Miss Nora Burke of Minneapolis was in.
stantly killed while crossing a railroad
track in Waseca county.
George F. Hancock, highly respected
pioneer settler in Lake township, Wabasha
county, died OF pleurisy recently, aged sixty
eight years. Mrs. Hancock died only a
few weeks ago.
At Winona, James Thompson, the laborer
convicted OF rape upon Rosabel Castle.
man, five-year-old child, on May 6 last,
was sentenced for life.
Edward Delamore died in Point Douglas,
aged seyenty-o years. He was one ol
Hastings pioneer citizens.
Francis Nellcr, Jr., OF Udolpho, Mower
county, committed suicide. He was aged
twenty-seven years. Last fall he desired
to marry young lady who. was working
in his fathers family, but his father for.
bade it and the girl left. 1t is conjcctured
that the suicide was the result OF breeding
over this disappointment.
At Glenwood, the house of Postmaster
Thomas Swiger took fire and was Quilted.
All the contents were rendered worthless
by fire and water
The Shakopee Manufacturing company,
an organization but recently Incorporated
made II voluntary assignment for the bene
fit OF creditors to Charles Bornarth.
The barn on the farm OF Mrs. Benefeldt
in Hay creek, Goodhue county, was burned
It contained 500 bushels OF oats and
eighteen tons OF hay.
f. II. Morse, well known machine and
organ agent OF Red Wing, who has bcen in
the business with DR.. Michael for some
time under the firm nume OF Michael &
Morse, has left for parts unknown.
William Pope, q brakeman on the Will
mar road, fell from the cars at Cold Spring
and had his right arm cut off near tho
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